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One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.
They're Russian puppets, both things are true.
this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US
You got that right.
I'm half-sure Trump put price tags on everything in the WH and every time you see a stupid thing in US foreign policy (local is guided by P25), you may hear Donald's OF donation bell ring.
CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws
Just in case
Edit: I'm glad I wasn't the only one that didn't know. When the headline reads like everyone should know I felt a little dumb for a second.
Thank you. I've never heard this acronym before, myself.
thank you i was spaghetti walling and none of my backronyms were fitting
Fascinating series of words I've never heard before
Spaghetti walling - I think this is another way of saying "throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks", my guess from the old wives tale that you can test the doneness of spaghetti by seeing if it sticks when thrown at a wall.
Backronym - an acronym that was made by first deciding what the finished acronym should be, then working backwards to decide what it should stand for. Usually used by NASA nerds to make cool sounding projects or by politicians to make evil shit sound friendly and benign.
Ruzza just creamed their pants
On the bright side, at least our upcoming American cyberpunk dystopia is now more likely to feature a greater prevelance of lone wolf, broke, two bit hackers as a semi-viable lifestyle/'career path'...
Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16
In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.
Not sure how much more whiplash I can take...
They want us to all tune out. This is all by design so we don't know what's real or not anymore, then they can get away with even more and nobody will care.
This is what they've been doing for years and years, this is just more of the same.
I’m not sure about “they” the US government, but it’s absolutely a Russian/ Authoritarian state playbook.
It’s not Uncle Sam, or the USA shutting this down. It’s the Republican Administration. They’ve been empowered by the Republican led Congress to shut down anything it doesn’t like, understand, or benefit from.
REPUBLICANS. Not some nebulous "uncle sam". Republicans are turning off funding. They deserve 100% of the blame because they are 100% the cause.
This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.
The EU needs to start planning now (well, really, needed to start planning in 2016) to replace every critical system that relies in any way on the US government.
If you think of money invested vs. return on government programs like this, the benefit is incredible. That it's being discontinued is obvious proof that the US is run by the agents of its own destruction and cannot be relied upon in any way: not as a supplier of military equipment, or information technology, or economic codependency.
They're doing so much of this shit quietly, but when you start to put each piece together it should be frightening to anyone that doesn't believe Russia is our BFF.
In late Feb, just after the whole Zelenskyy White House visit, Hegseth issued an order to Cyber Command to halt all planning against Russia including cybersecurity offensive strategies.
He gave the order to Commander Timothy Haugh, who is also head of the National Security Agency. Haugh told the outgoing director of operations, and cyber command begun putting together an official document of why this is a very bad idea.
I missed this completely until yesterday, but it turns out that Haugh and his NSA deputy were both suddenly ousted from their positions less than 2 weeks ago.
No reason was given they were just told "your services are no longer required." Apparently Laura Loomer requested Trump have them removed and made some vague accusations against them bc they had been installed under Biden.
I admit I hadn't heard of CVE program before today. Since we are BFFs now and Russia is "totally not a threat" to the U.S., I guess it's supposed to be ok because friends share everything. But wouldn't this also make us incredibly more vulnerable to China and any other country?
We as a society need to start defining our damn acronyms. Stop assuming everyone knows what every acronym is, because they do not.
Adds cybersecurity to resume** Finally gets hired..
Good luck, I've been trying for 2 months and I was a senior engineer.
Sorry to hear that, i wish you positive luck in the near future!
Right before Windows 10 loses security updates too, what a coincidence. Wonder what the Russians are working on...
Can't wait until I don't have to upgrade software anymore!
For most people the consequences of this action will be too far away to understand the connection, so it's a pretty good target for the US Republican party.
I was, like, w-what CVE program. I don't know of any "CVE" programs that could be shut down, so I don't know what that abbreviation refers to.
Unless...
...oh no. Fuck. The actual CVE program? And they're just gonna- Shit.
What.
How.
I don't know how many times I've said "America is fucked" when reading the news lately, and I should stop doing that, because that fact has now been so well established that there's no need to elaborate.
2017: covfefe
2025: cvefefe
The Age of Fire is ending in America. The President is a Hollow working for Darkstalker Kaathe.
False alarm
Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16 In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.
I don't think it's a false alarm, in the sense that it is totally reasonable to be alarmed. They are cutting crucial stuff before they know what it is. There are a lot of things being cut where we're only going to understand the impact years from now.
Literally the rest of world against these fuckers soon.
They dont want national security.
They want to steal your property and destroy the country so they can reform it in their image.
Are you guys free yet?
It’s because the entire administration is a vulnerability
Yes, this will end well. I wonder how the org will evolve from this or will another country pick it up... Will be interesting to see.
MAGA supporter: yup! Waste and fraud to me.
idiots!
